Since its creation at the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Brussels Jesuit College kept with the political power privileged and intense relations, especially under the Archduke Leopold William (1647-1656), a member of the Spanish royal family. That appears clearly from the emblematic productions of the Poetry and Rhetoric’s classes’ students, the so-called affixiones, exhibited once a year and which were constructed around the Archiduke and dedicated to him. Through these productions, the students expressed in a verbal and visual way their patriotism to the Spanish power during a time full of international problems between Spain, France and Northern Netherlands, and it seems thus very important to examine how this visual and verbal propaganda was received on one hand by the Archduke himself, who frequently visited the exhibitions and who had shown more than once his favour to the Jesuits, and on the other hand by the Brussels’ dwellers.

Publication date

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2008

Language

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Anglais

Conference

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"Word and Image, 1500-1900. Figure, Form and Function. The Eighth International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies", Winchester, England (du 28/07/2008 au 01/08/2008)

Ems, Grégory. Political Propaganda through the Emblematic Production of the Students in the Brussels Jesuit College under the Archduke Leopold William (1647-1656).Word and Image, 1500-1900. Figure, Form and Function. The Eighth International Conference of the Society for Emblem Studies (Winchester, England, du 28/07/2008 au 01/08/2008).